Famous Quotes & Sayings

June Jordan

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

Julian Fellowes

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Judy Garland

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Maria Shriver

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Paul Tillich

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Paul Krugman

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

Paul Cummings

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

Paul Dickson

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Paul Dirac

It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

Paul Davies

No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.

Patrick Swayze

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Patrick Swayze

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Geddes

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

Patrick Dempsey

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

Paola Antonelli

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

Paramahansa Yogananda

He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.

Owen D. Young

It takes vision and courage to create

Patti Stanger

If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

Peter Guber

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Peter Greenaway

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

Percy Ross

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Paul Valery

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Joyce Meyer

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

Katharine Hepburn

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Katharine Hepburn

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

Karen Mills

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

Justin Hawkins

I think the more successful you are, the bigger your hair gets.

Judith Regan

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

George Lucas

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.